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CVE-2008-3431
Critical
95.1
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
The VBoxDrvNtDeviceControl function in VBoxDrv.sys in Sun xVM VirtualBox before 1.6.4 uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs and does not properly validate a buffer associated with the Irp object, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening the \\.\VBoxDrv device and calling DeviceIoControl to send a crafted kernel address.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 6.87%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Mar 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- Not mapped
- Published
- 5 Aug 2008
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 8 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time